Rachel Nichols: podcast appearances and interviews

Rachel Nichols is an American actress and model born in 1979 or 1980. She began her career in modeling while attending Columbia University in New York City during the late 1990s. Transitioning into acting in the early 2000s, Nichols appeared in the film Autumn in New York (2000) and had a one-episode role in the fourth season of Sex and the City (2002). Her first significant film role was in the comedy Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003). She gained wider recognition playing Rachel Gibson in the final season of the television series Alias from 2005 to 2006 and starred in the horror film The Amityville Horror in 2005. Nichols secured her first starring film role in the thriller P2 in 2007 and achieved mainstream success with science-fiction action films such as Star Trek and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra in 2009. Her filmography includes The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008), Conan the Barbarian (2011), Alex Cross (2012), Raze (2013), and Inside (2016). She also starred in the television series Continuum from 2012 to 2015 and appeared in the sixth season of Criminal Minds as well as in the fourth seasons of Chicago Fire and The Librarians. Additionally, Nichols played a Gestapo officer named Martha in five episodes of The Man in the High Castle.